Chapter 3882: Reason

Su Xiao checked the more detailed list of the "Chain Mission · Dark Moon Ritual." As the list opened, a large number of completed mission branches appeared. After checking these dozens of branches, he gradually understood the situation.

This is indeed a large chain mission, executed by a large adventure group of Death Paradise since they were at the third tier. It was received in a half-collapsed third-tier mission world filled with blood smoke.

The reason why that third-tier world was like this was that half of an ancient dragon's heart fell into that world. High-tier power falling into a low-tier world will inevitably lead to disastrous results.

Afterwards, this large adventure group of Death Paradise successively completed this mission from the third tier. The worlds corresponding to this chain mission were basically artifacts, parts of limbs, etc., that were accidentally teleported or fell into low-to-medium worlds during the bloody battle between the Sun and Ancient Dragon factions, which derived the mission content.

After reaching the seventh tier, this mission began to point to world areas similar to the "Pseudo-Sun Holy Land · Kiliad." Unfortunately, this adventure group couldn't hold on and was wiped out. A lone wolf from Reincarnation Paradise obtained the key mission items left by this adventure group.

More precisely, this adventure group was wiped out because they encountered this lone wolf. The lone wolf's combat power can be imagined. He finally pushed this mission to the ninth tier and triggered the most important choice of the "Chain Mission." This choice didn't have many hints, and the content was as follows.

Dark Moon, Radiant Sun, Ancient Dragon.

From the current perspective, choosing Dark Moon is the current mission progress. Choosing Radiant Sun is to go to Dusk City to complete the final link of the mission. As for Ancient Dragon, the final link of this mission is not in this world, but in the "Ancient Dragon Kingdom · Eberias."

This lone wolf successfully pushed the mission to the middle and late stages of the ninth tier and died at the hands of five Death Rangers. These five people had quite ruthless combat power. They were twin five brothers. In addition, these five people defeated this Reincarnation Paradise lone wolf openly and honestly. This crazy lone wolf was convinced of the loss and told the chain mission to the five brothers and threw out the key mission items.

The five brothers didn't say anything like letting the lone wolf go. They had fought many crazy lone wolves and knew that since it had reached this step, sparing the other party's life was an insult. They didn't particularly understand the concept of Reincarnation lunatics, but the five brothers joined forces again to activate their strongest ability and blasted the lone wolf to death.

Being able to kill this lone wolf, the strength of the five brothers is unquestionable. They have been pushing this mission to the Absolute Powerhouse level until they entered Radiant Star. The five brothers died on the Northern Continent. By this stage, the core mission item of the mission already had the characteristic of definitely dropping after death, and was later obtained by an Absolute Powerhouse · Battle Angel from Apocalypse Paradise.

After several hands, this core mission item was obtained by a medium-sized adventure group from Apocalypse Paradise. The threshold for this adventure group is astonishing. Only by reaching the Absolute Powerhouse level are you qualified to join. Although there are not many members, their strength is unquestionable. It is only in Apocalypse Paradise; in other Paradise factions, it is difficult for such adventure groups to recruit members.

The leader of this adventure group discovered the huge benefits hidden in the "Dark Moon Mission" and also determined that once this mission is completed, it will be an opportunity to soar. Other members also knew about this, so after signing a team contract and finalizing the distribution of benefits in advance, everyone began to go all out to attack this mission.

This process was long and dangerous. What happened during this period is unknown, but when executing the final link of this mission, only the leader of the adventure group remained. The reason Su Xiao determined this is because he found a ring belonging to the leader of an Apocalypse Paradise adventure group on the index finger of the skeleton he found in the depths of the Lightless Zone.

Let's call this adventure group leader the Ring Leader. The Ring Leader's strength must be quite strong, and he has great personal charm. However, the situation of his death in the Lightless Zone is clearly unreasonable in one point.

The first point is that this is indeed a chain mission with extremely rich benefits, but for this adventure group, it is not worth taking the risk of certain death. Thus, it is inferred that during the period when this adventure group explored this mission, until they entered the "Lightless Zone" of this world, no members were killed or injured, or only a very small number of members died because of this mission, but it was within an acceptable range.

After all the remaining members of this adventure group entered the Lightless Zone, they were wiped out there. The point that really makes Su Xiao puzzled is that the final link of the mission clearly marks: Place this "Moon Meteor Core" on the activation device in the deepest part of the west side of the Lightless Zone, thereby activating the "Dark Moon Ritual."

But after Su Xiao went deep into the Lightless Zone, he did not find the Ring Leader's skeleton after going deep into the west side. Before he entered the Lightless Zone, he casually threw a bag of soul coins to the squad leader who led the way. This did not disappoint him. The other party told him that the west side of the Lightless Zone had been particularly dangerous recently. Although Su Xiao has always been adventurous and challenging to strong enemies, he also has the habit of listening to advice and eating well, so he went deep into the east side.

The Ring Leader, who should have gone to the far west side of the Lightless Zone, died in the far east side of the Lightless Zone, and there was not a single teammate around him before he died.

Su Xiao looked at the mission reward. This 【Abyss Treasure Chest (★★★★★)】 looks more and more like a Great Father-level Original Sin Object...

Although the risk of opening this Abyss Treasure Chest is not low, once something precious is opened, he will be rich. This is the highest-tier Abyss Treasure Chest. Any treasure inside is hard to come by in normal times.

Su Xiao sat on a high wheat straw stack. As the breeze blew, his gaze was distracted. This time, he accidentally activated the "Chain Mission · Dark Moon Ritual," and it was directly triggered to the final link of the mission, which made him particularly uncomfortable. He really hadn't experienced such a thing as a pie falling from the sky. From the first tier to the Absolute Powerhouse, this was the first time.

Could it be that by crushing the god soul of the beast god polluted by poison through the effect of the "Hunter" title, his Extinction Law luck limit has been upgraded, which really made him turn his luck around?

Pondering for a few seconds, Su Xiao opened the world contact platform, found the name of the Platinum Apostle in the contact list, and contacted the other party. This scene looks very confusing, but if you understand it thoroughly, you will feel it is very reasonable.

Don't forget, the Su Xiao team, the Priest team, and the Black Demon team are undergoing the Trial of the King. The three teams each need to defeat four strong enemies and retrieve 12 "Sun Source Stones" in total, so that the Trial of the King can proceed to the final step.

The strength of the beast god that the Su Xiao team dealt with before needs no further elaboration. At the moment, the Priest team and the Black Demon team have each dealt with the Blood-Thirsty Beast and the Giant Tree King. Now the three teams are looking forward to one thing at the same time: other two teams must not have any accidents. If they want to die, wait until this Trial of the King is over, and it will have nothing to do with them.

The core problem is that if any team among the three is wiped out, the strong enemies they have to deal with will be shared among the other two teams.

Analyzing it this way, it is not difficult to understand why Su Xiao contacted the Platinum Apostle. In terms of luck and destiny, the Platinum Apostle must be the strongest in this world. As for the grievances between the leader and the Platinum Apostle, Su Xiao and the leader have a deep friendship, but in the Paradise faction, enemies are defaulted to not being shared.

For example, Su Xiao has a grudge against the Arcane Eternal Star. Even if the leader has cooperation with the Arcane Eternal Star, Su Xiao will not feel resentment. In the case of conflicts between the two factions, temporary cooperation is just mutual utilization. At the moment, Su Xiao and the Platinum Apostle belong to this kind of short-term cooperation of mutual precaution + utilization.

The confrontation between factions is not a child's fight. Every group is divided clearly. Not to mention the distance, just say that before Su Xiao was in the Wind Sea Continent, his army beat the Sea Clan to a pulp, and his reputation in the Sea Clan reached "Extreme Mortal Enemy." At the moment, the Sea King and the high-level Sea Clan are still cooperating with him, and they will still cooperate.

Not long after Su Xiao contacted the Platinum Apostle in text form, the other party replied with two words: Coordinates. Seeing this, he sent the coordinates he is currently at. This is Dusk City · Outer City, and exposing these coordinates has no risk.

About a dozen minutes later, a figure ran from afar. This person ran on all fours like a beast, fell to the ground when he arrived, and died suddenly with no aura immediately. Fine golden light particles drifted out of the corpse, forming a ring a few meters in front of Su Xiao. As the ring expanded, it reflected a dim environment, and a figure, whether male, female, old, or young, stood in the darkness.

"Anything for me?"

The Platinum Apostle spoke. His voice had a gradient feeling, transforming from a male voice to a female voice, then gradually to a male voice, and the voice gradually aged from a teenager, and then gradually transformed into a teenager's tone.

Su Xiao roughly explained his situation this time to the Platinum Apostle. Of course, he only mentioned the chain mission. More specific things, such as the Lightless Zone, Dark Moon Ritual, etc., were not mentioned at all.

"If it were someone else, receiving such a chain mission that has reached the final link, it could be explained by luck. As for you, Bai Ye, forgive me for being blunt, I don't think you have this luck."

The Platinum Apostle's tone had a bit of laughter. Although he didn't explicitly mock: 'Your luck attribute ÷ 10, minus the negative luck of the basic destiny concept, and you can still encounter this good thing?', he also expressed relatively tactfully that with your bad luck, there must be something wrong with encountering this.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. Seeing this, the Platinum Apostle said "wait a moment," and the three-meter-wide ring opposite turned into darkness.

More than half an hour later, the darkness in the ring slowly thinned. The Platinum Apostle, who was still in the form of a black shadow, said:

"Someone used a very obscure way to temporarily enhance your luck. Looking at the situation, it should be that they knew you were going to enter a dangerous place through intelligence channels, and used a great price to temporarily enhance your timing, which allowed you to pick up this big bargain."

The Platinum Apostle stopped for a few seconds after saying this, and then continued: "As for the location of the other party, that side did it very obscurely. The luck enhancement ritual was performed on an isolated island on the east side of the Southern Continent, but the root of this matter is in Dusk City."

The Platinum Apostle did not provide more specific intelligence. In the case of mutual utilization, providing intelligence should be moderate. Su Xiao encountering big trouble is not what the Priest team wants to see, but if Su Xiao is too smooth, the Priest team will also have a headache.

"Trade must be equal, so, what is your reward?"

Hearing the Platinum Apostle's words, Su Xiao threw out a hand-drawn picture. This was drawn by Moon Apostle according to Su Xiao's description, and it was quite high-level.

The content above is: In the depths of the east side of the Lightless Zone, a Sun Altar is located here. A humanoid beast over five meters tall with sparse, scorching hair is lying on this Sun Altar. A golden spear pierces the center of its chest, and the spear is deeply buried in the altar below. It looks like this humanoid beast was nailed to it from above.

The four strong enemies that the Priest team needs to deal with are the Giant Tree King, the Undead Ascetic, the Dark Moon Prince, and the Frenzied Sun Beast. At the moment, the Giant Tree King has been defeated, and the Undead Ascetic is in the Bone Auditorium on the southwest side of the "Holy Heart City," the headquarters of the Theocracy.

The location of the Dark Moon Prince is temporarily unknown, and the Frenzied Sun Beast is the same. At this time, what Su Xiao provided is the location of the Frenzied Sun Beast. This strong enemy is in the depths of the east side of the Lightless Zone.

Both sides are very satisfied with this transaction, but this does not hinder the situation of life and death when they meet later.

Su Xiao of course will not fully believe the intelligence provided by the Platinum Apostle, but the other party will not be low-level enough to provide completely false intelligence. Then the core of this intelligence, "the person who enhanced his timing is in Dusk City," has a credibility of over 90%.

With this train of thought, the follow-up is simple. Looking at the entire Dusk City, there are only two factions that have the qualifications and resources to enhance Su Xiao's timing: the Monarch faction under the Radiant Sun Monarch · Ashlot, and the Great Library faction under the old monster.

If the Monarch faction did this, the old noble · Augustus would definitely greet Su Xiao in advance. Both sides are currently in the cooperation stage. Such things can be used as chips, and there is no need to be so sneaky. In this way, the one who secretly enhanced his timing is the old monster in the Great Library.

Looking at the entire Radiant Star, the most powerful and capable ones are actually two people: Radiant Sun Monarch · Ashlot, and the owner of the Great Library · the old monster. That might be an old monster who has lived from the First Era to the present.

Compared to these two, the Soul Academy, the Theocracy, etc., have to stand aside.

Temporarily unable to guess the old monster's purpose, fortunately, with psychological preparation, the follow-up response will definitely have a different effect. Su Xiao looked at the time, everything was well prepared, and it was time to face the second strong enemy, the Gao Ta Knight Commander.

On the vast wheat field, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the wheat straw stack and meditated. Time passed second by second, and the night descended quietly. It was another night of dark night descent. Fortunately, Dusk City has an ultra-giant barrier, protecting the entire royal city within it.

When the first sun of the next day rose, a figure drifted over. The habit of the Daughter of Nature · Elucle is the same as Saintess Seat. As long as she can drift, she will not walk a step. Today, Elucle's hair is light golden, representing that she is in a good mood.

"Where are the other two?"

The Daughter of Nature · Elucle is always vigilant against Su Xiao and the three. At the moment, she doesn't see the traces of Zui Yasi and Wood, and she inevitably feels a bit uneasy in her heart.

"They have urgent matters temporarily."

"Just the two of us to deal with the Gao Ta Knight Commander?"

The Daughter of Nature · Elucle frowned slightly.

"Are you afraid?"

Su Xiao, who ended his meditation, opened his eyes.

"What a rough provocation."

"..."

Su Xiao was silent and continued to meditate. After both sides were silent for an hour, the Daughter of Nature · Elucle turned and was about to leave.

Such a powerful output, plus a moving treasure chest that can be backstabbed, how could he let her go like this? Su Xiao calmly exited meditation, opened his right hand, and a dark purple ring appeared in his hand.

"Bai Ye, do you look down on me, or do you look down on the wealth of the Arcane Eternal Star? Do you want to use secret treasures to tempt an Absolute Powerhouse spellcaster?"

"This is the Dark Moon Star Ring."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Elucle's expression remained unchanged, but her heart was already surging. The core purpose of her coming to Radiant Star this time was for this "Dark Moon Star Ring."

The abyss passage in the Void · Green Shade Wetland that cannot be closed is becoming more and more unstable. Even if the "Dark Moon Star Ring" cannot close it, there is a not-low probability of making it shrink. The harm of a small abyss passage is not the same concept as a medium-to-large abyss passage.

"Stop pretending to be calm, we know you came here this time to find this ring."

Baja on Su Xiao's shoulder spoke. This was not the end. It continued to add insult to injury: "This time, Soul Lord · Youwen · Gewu cannot enter Radiant Star. I think you also know that you are the last hope now. Don't think I'm alarmist. The faction that entered Radiant Star this time is no longer a matter of immortals fighting. Even monsters like the rule-breaker · Hao Tao have come. Plus the royal blood of Dusk City is becoming more and more declining. If things go on like this, this world that has existed since the First Era may collapse."

Baja's words made Elucle's face look not very good. She was not too surprised to be seen through. After all, this time she was teaming up with old yin-b's. This was not a problem of revealing flaws, but that she didn't withdraw from the team when she was supposed to, which might be used by the other party as a clue to carry out a series of inferences.

"You can't get the Dark Moon Star Ring."

"Oh? So you really came for this ring this time."

Su Xiao threw the "Dark Moon Star Ring" in his hand. Hearing this, Elucle was so angry that her eyes went dark.

As the saying goes, the simpler and more plain the flickering method, the more effective it can be. For example, this time, Su Xiao originally had 70% certainty that Elucle was looking for the Dark Moon Star Ring. Now that the other party admitted it herself, that was enough.

"Don't use fakes to fool me."

"Oh, so the other Dark Moon Star Ring is in the Gao Ta."

Su Xiao nodded thoughtfully. Hearing him say this, Elucle was so angry that her eyes went dark. After she stabilized her breathing, she simply didn't say a word.

"The Dark Moon Star Ring in the Gao Ta should have failed. The preservation conditions there are too poor."

"..."

Elucle stopped talking and just stared at Su Xiao.

"Are you doubting that this Dark Moon Star Ring of mine is fake?"

"Yes."

Elucle said this word through gritted teeth.

"Where did the Silver Moon Wolf originate?"

"Light-Dark World."

Elucle began to try to shorten the sentences. Baja on Su Xiao's shoulder took over the conversation:

"Correct, it is the Light-Dark World. But there is no reward for answering correctly. The Light-Dark World is actually this world before it was sealed and transcended. The Silver Moon Wolf originated from the Dark Moon faction, and the Dark Moon Star Ring you crave is the masterpiece of the Dark Moon faction. This world has many small abyss passages. The Dark Moon faction of course hopes to close all the abyss passages in the world they are in, so they used the strength of the whole clan to develop such an incredible miracle item as the Dark Moon Star Ring."

The more Baja spoke, the more annoying his tone became. He said more clearly: "What is the relationship between the Extinction Law practitioner and the Silver Moon Wolf? As a spellcaster, you must know. You also know the relationship between the Silver Moon Wolf and the Dark Moon faction. My boss, as a blood-oath ally of the Silver Moon Wolves, is it worth being surprised that he got a Dark Moon Star Ring after entering this world?"

"Heh~, without the Dark Moon Queen's permission, even if you are a blood-oath ally of the Silver Moon Wolf, you don't..."

"What are you talking about, spellcaster."

Baja's expression was half-smiling. Then, the 【Blood Moon Queen】 necklace on Su Xiao's neck emitted a faint light, as if a dark moon appeared in the background. Under the dark moon, there was also a hundred-meter-high sculpture of the Queen in festive attire, as if it stood in the center of the former Dark Moon main city.

"You seemed to say something about the Queen just now? I didn't hear clearly, say it again."

Baja is a master at playing with mentality. Elucle simply remained silent.

"How about this, let's sign a contract..."

Before Baja finished speaking, Elucle interrupted firmly: "Impossible."

"It's okay not to sign a contract. How about this, you go with us to deal with the Gao Ta Knight Commander. If you win, this Dark Moon Star Ring will belong to you. As far as we know, the Absolute Powerhouses of the Arcane Eternal Star are actually more than other factions estimated. After all, they have such a tall Black Maple Tree.

I think your resource competition is very fierce. An Absolute Powerhouse of your combat power has a high probability of being promoted to Supreme Powerhouse. The problem is, your spellcaster system is one of the highest-tier power systems. Among the four factions of the Arcane Eternal Star, you are not the only one qualified to be promoted to Supreme Powerhouse at this stage, right? That resource allocation..."

The more Baja smiled, the more wretched his expression became. He continued: "In the final analysis, we have a personal grudge with the Arcane faction represented by Mage Sage · Sephilia. With your Elemental faction, it is just a faction hostility, leading to a hostile relationship. In addition, you are the only spellcaster in Radiant Star. You don't say, we don't say, who knows we have cooperated? Even if they know, you are just for the Dark Moon Star Ring, and we are just cooperating in a mutual utilization way. Don't you want to be the MVP of this game in the Arcane Eternal Star?!"

Elucle of course would not be flickered by Baja, but what Baja said is actually not unreasonable. The competition within the Arcane Eternal Star is more intense than outsiders imagine. In a power system that devours natural elements, who is not a genius?

Elucle weighed the pros and cons for a moment, and finally chose to agree to this deal, going to deal with the Gao Ta Knight Commander with Su Xiao. As a reward, it is naturally the Dark Moon Star Ring owned by Su Xiao.

May I ask, where did Su Xiao get the Dark Moon Star Ring? Don't forget, he is a top alchemist, and he also masters advanced abyss studies, as well as very strong sealing studies. The combination of these three high-level knowledges allowed him to self-make a Dark Moon Star Ring based on the artistic style of the "Blood Moon Queen" necklace and the dark purple tone commonly used by the Dark Moon faction.

This thing is an ultra-rare product of the First Era. It is very remarkable that Elucle can know that there is such a thing and know its specific function. As for having seen it with her own eyes, Su Xiao bet that she didn't know the specific appearance of the Dark Moon Star Ring.

At the moment, whether this thing in Su Xiao's hand is the Dark Moon Star Ring is not important at all. The key is that Elucle feels that this should be the Dark Moon Star Ring, and that is enough. In addition, the Dark Moon Star Ring created by Su Xiao with three high-level knowledges as the foundation really has a few points of being fake and real. As for whether this thing has any effect, cough~, don't care about these details.

And in the follow-up, Su Xiao really intends to let this spellcaster bring the real Dark Moon Star Ring to the Void. The reason is that if there is a large-scale abyss invasion in the Void in the near future, it will not benefit Su Xiao. The Void is at the top of the Star Realm. Once the Void is invaded by the abyss on a large scale, the six major Paradise factions have a not-low probability of issuing a large number of abyss missions. At that time, the situation will be very unfavorable to Su Xiao instead.

What Su Xiao needs now is time, time to be promoted to Supreme Powerhouse in the follow-up, and time to become stronger with skyrocketing combat power at the Supreme Powerhouse level.

As for how to let Elucle bring the real Dark Moon Star Ring back to the Void, this is very simple. In the follow-up, first let the other party assist and help deal with the Gao Ta Knight Commander. After winning the Gao Ta Knight Commander, with the skillful victory and immediate backstab between him and the other two "good teammates," he has more than 90% certainty of winning the real Dark Moon Star Ring owned by the other party.

Elucle, who was miserably backstabbed, of course will not let it go. The problem is that the real Dark Moon Star Ring is already in Su Xiao's hands. In this way, he can use the real Dark Moon Star Ring to sincerely invite Elucle to deal with the third strong enemy in the "Dark Moon Nightmare." ===== CHAPTER 3883 =====